Qiao Liang (writer)


Qiao Liang, is a retired major general in the People's Liberation Army Air Force, military theorist, and author. He is the deputy director of the creative department of the PLAAF, the deputy secretary-general of the Council for National Security Policy Studies, and a member of the Chinese Writers' Association. In 2007, he presented a lecture series on CCTV about the Thirty-Six Stratagems.

Synopsis

Qiao was born in 1955 to a military family. He enlisted in 1972, and served in a variety of technical posts in the Lanzhou Military District. He started writing fiction in 1974, and he joined the Chinese Writers' Association in 1984. In 1999, he co-authored the book Unrestricted Warfare with Wang Xiangsui, which explored how the United States could hypothetically be defeated by technologically inferior forces, and how the concept of warfare could be expanded beyond traditional battlefield engagements.
In 2016, Qiao and Wang published an updated edition of Unrestricted Warfare.

Major works

Military theory